US5232814A - Presensitized color-proofing sheet - Google Patents

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US5232814A
US5232814A US07/814,435 US81443591A US5232814A US 5232814 A US5232814 A US 5232814A US 81443591 A US81443591 A US 81443591A US 5232814 A US5232814 A US 5232814A
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    • G03F—PHOTOMECHANICAL PRODUCTION OF TEXTURED OR PATTERNED SURFACES, e.g. FOR PRINTING, FOR PROCESSING OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; MATERIALS THEREFOR; ORIGINALS THEREFOR; APPARATUS SPECIALLY ADAPTED THEREFOR
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  • the present invention relates to sensitive elements for the photomechanical production of multi-color images without printing.
  • the invention has particular relevance to production of color proofs in which at least one color is metallic in appearance.
  • the invention is applicable to both overlay and surprint proofs in either the positive or negative acting modes.
  • the half tone process is generally used, wherein the actual printing image is composed of thousands of minute dots per square inch of a single color ink of varied dot size or ink density. What the naked eye sees as shading in half tone prints is actually the controlled variation in the size of the dots relative to the unprinted areas between the dots.
  • the dots are printed in black ink only. Full color reproductions, however, are necessarily printed in each of at least three colors, cyan, magenta, and yellow (known as "three color process"), on in these same colors with the addition of black (“four color process"). For each color a separate printing plate is made.
  • each separation or individual color information source representing one of the colors, and containing, dot for dot, the amount of that color which must be printed to produce the desired total color print.
  • the preparation of the color-separations and individual color information source is an art and requires considerable skill in handling many variables to produce a desired result. Often trial and error is involved, requiring correction or replacement of one or more of the separations or color sources. Unless some reliable system is available to "proof” the separations or color sources, the printing press must be set up and copy printed just to secure preliminary proofs. This is time consuming and expensive. It is therefore desirable to provide accurate means for proofing the separations or electronically stored color sources without printing.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 3,136,637 discloses type a) proofing.
  • a light-sensitive transparent sheet is provided for each of the colors to be printed.
  • Each of the sheets is exposed through its respective color separation negative.
  • the color in the non-image areas is removed, yielding a sheet which contains the desired color pattern in the image areas, while being colorless and transparent in the non-image areas (e.g. between halftone dots). After they are assembled together in registry on a white background, a color proof results.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 3,671,236 describes a negative acting surprint proofing material (type c) above) in which photo-mechanically produced images corresponding with each color are integrally built up on a single substrate (much as occurs in the actual printing operation itself) without any printing operations.
  • the multiplicity of carrier films is eliminated by transferring individual color images from a sheet comprised of (1) a carrier with release surface, (2) pigment and binder layer, (3) photohardenable or insolubilizable layer, (4) barrier layer and (5) pressure-sensitive adhesive layer.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 4,260,673 describes a positive acting surprint proofing material (type d) above) in which a positive acting diazo oxide photosensitive layer is used.
  • the color proofing sheet is comprised of a color layer, a binder layer, both being light sensitive, and non-light sensitive solvent resistant barrier layer with the binder layer being present to provide a means of eliminating residual toning between adjacent layers in the structure.
  • This layer may also act as a thermal, adhesive layer to transfer individual color images to a single support forming a surprint proof.
  • the present invention describes photomechanical proofing media which are capable of providing proofing images on non-standard colors, and in particular are able to provide proofing images of metallic appearance images.
  • the proofing media may be positive or negative imaging materials and may be for transfer, surlay or overlay systems.
  • the unifying characteristic of the invention is that the photosensitive media be resist imageable (including peal-apart or strippable imaging) and contain two distinct pigment containing layers.
  • the two pigment containing layers comprise a first layer of a metallic appearing pigment in a binder and a second layer comprising a non-metallic visible color pigment in a binder.
  • the pigment layers may be distinct from a photosensitive layer, or one or both of the pigment layers may be photosensitive negative-acting layers.
  • each pigment layer should contain a photosolubilizer such as a diazo oxide.
  • the media or photosensitive article comprises at least a) a carrier layer with a release surface, b) a metallic appearance pigment and binder layer, c) a color pigment and binder layer, d) optionally a photohardenable layer, and e) a laminable adhesive layer. It is preferred to have an organic solvent soluble barrier layer between the adhesive layer and the rest of the construction. It is also preferred to have a release layer coating on the carrier layer to provide the release surface. For the overlay proofing materials, the release, barrier, and adhesive layers are not required.
  • the present invention can be used as an overlay for any image, only requiring registration with that image. It can be used with any surprint system with suitable variation in the adhesive used and pressure used in the lamination to that surprint system.
  • the metallic appearing proofing elements of the present invention differ from the above-described proofing media of the prior (as represented by U.S. Pat. No. 3,136,637, U.S. Pat. No. 4,250,242, U.S. Pat. No. 3,671,236, and U.S. Pat. No. 4,260,673) and is different in a number of ways.
  • the most obvious difference is that the prior art proofing media has a single color containing layer therein. That color layer may be the same layer or a different layer than that which is photosensitive, but there is only one layer which is intended to contribute color to the proofing image.
  • the present invention there must be two layers with easily visually observable concentrations of pigments therein (reflectance optical densities of at least 0.1, preferably at least 0.2). Both the non-metallic color layer, underneath and adjacent with the metallic color layer, and the metallic-appearing color layer have sufficient concentrations of pigments to be visible.
  • the first color layer is referred to as a "flat" color layer. Even though it may be the same color as conventional color proofing layers (cyan, yellow, magenta, or black), it may be other colors as well.
  • the color is chosen to enhance the metallic hue of the metallic layer.
  • the flat color layer is color formulated in hue, chroma, and lightness to closely match the desired metallic target color. This is important because it is far more difficult to find precisely matching metallic pigments than it is to appropriately adjust the color balance of pigments.
  • the metallic pigments are commercially available in a variety of colors and forms. It is difficult to use actual metal flakes or particles because of their difficulty in forming even dispersions or suspensions. It is therefore preferred to use particles, such as mica, which are coated with metal or metal oxide. These are also commercially available (e.g. Merlin (TM) Luster Pigments, The Mearl Corporation, N.Y.). Pigments available include at least brass, gold, bronze, silver, copper, russet, and variations of these colors. The particles in the metallic layers vary from about 1 to 100 microns in their average largest dimension.
  • the thermally laminable adhesive layer preferably has the following properties provided by the thermal adhesive layer:
  • the adhesive layer be thermally laminable at a temperature between 100° and 150° C. at a pressure of 1.6 lb/in 2 (0.29 kg/cm 2 ),
  • the adhesive layer is non-tacky at room temperature or preferably not laminable to paper or shelf-laminable at 45° C., 2 g/cm 2 , for at least one week,
  • the adhesive layer must also strongly adhere to the barrier layer, the bond strength between those layers exceeding the mild bond strength between the release layer and either the pigment containing binder layer or the carrier layer.
  • the property described above for non-coloration reflects conditions of conventional imagewise exposure for this article.
  • the element should not discolor or alter its optical density by as much as 0.05 optical density units (at any wavelength) when subjected to the conventional levels of exposure required to image the diazo resin.
  • Exposure at 380-420 nm is conventional in industry at present (that is, an exposing radiation having a peak output surrounding 380-420 nm is acceptable).
  • the sheet should not visibly discolor when exposed to sufficient radiation to enable an image to be developed from activation of the diazo resin.
  • the thermally laminable adhesive layer should have the properties found in U.S. Pat. No. 4,260,673.
  • Pressure sensitive adhesives of U.S. Pat. No. 3,671,236 (negative acting) and U.S. Pat. No. 4,260,673 (positive acting) may be used in place of the thermal adhesives with properly adjusted lamination conditions as described in the respective patents.
  • the construction for either of the surprint proof articles would typically comprise a carrier sheet provided with a release surface, which may either be a smooth surface of the carrier itself, or a surface coating thereon.
  • a metallic appearing pigment in a solvent softenable (dispersible or soluble) polymeric binder.
  • a color coating comprising, for example, a pigmented organophilic water-insoluble solvent-softenable resinous polymer.
  • both the metallic appearing layer and the color layer are photosensitized using diazo-oxide compounds.
  • an additional layer is coated over (and in contact with the non-metallic color-coating) consisting of a light-sensitive diazo resin.
  • the color coating and light sensitive layer are intimately associated and adherently bonded together (and in certain constructions can actually be combined to a single layer).
  • This negatively acting light-sensitive layer is soluble in the solution which softens and/or partially dissolves the color coating.
  • Overlying either the color layer of the positive system or the diazo layer of the negative system is preferably a continuous solvent-resistant resinous protective film or barrier layer.
  • a layer of thermally laminable adhesive is from 0.1 ⁇ 10 -4 cm to 20 ⁇ 10 -4 cm in thickness.
  • the outer surface of the adhesive can optionally be protected from contamination by dirt or grease, by a protective release liner.
  • the protective liner is first stripped from the adhesive surface and the entire structure is laminated for example, by heated rolling, onto the substrate. Thereafter, the carrier sheet is stripped from the structure, the bond to the paper and the adhesion between the several layers being greater than the non-adhesive clinging engagement between the carrier sheet and the color coating or the release layer. Following the removal of the carrier, the remaining structure, now bonded to the substrate, is exposed to ultraviolet light (or to whatever radiation the photosensitive layer has been sensitized) through the appropriate color separation corresponding with the color of the particular coating. In the light struck areas, the ultraviolet light passes through the color coating (which is transparent thereto) and exposes the light-sensitive material. Adjacent unexposed areas remain light-sensitive.
  • the sheet is processed with processing solvent selected with respect to the particular material of which the color coating layer is composed to develop the image.
  • the color coating and the metallic appearing coating remain in the exposed areas of the negative acting materials and are removed in the exposed areas of the positive acting materials, leaving the color image anchored to the underlying support layers.
  • the barrier layer serves as a barrier which protects the substrate (and adhesive) from solutions used during the processing.
  • the preferred adhesive system of the present invention has been found to be limited to a narrow class of available thermal adhesives, as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,656,114.
  • the preferred adhesive system of the present invention is described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,260,673.
  • a carrier sheet of a 51 micrometer film of biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate polyester was first coated with an aqueous solution constituted as follows:
  • This layer was 0.074 grams/meter 2 .
  • This layer was in turn supracoated with a barrier layer of the following composition:
  • the dried coating weight of this layer was 2.0 grams/meter 2 .
  • the final layer of adhesive was supracoated over the above barrier layer to a dried coating weight of 5.0 gm/m 2 the adhesive layer having the following composition:
  • this layered composition is laminated with the adhesive layer adjacent to the final support which may be any of the following:
  • the resultant material is placed under an appropriate mask and exposed and processed as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,656,114.
  • the result is an image corresponding with the mask used in the exposure and which has a metallic golden appearance.
  • the PVA, Photosensitive, Barrier, Adhesive layers are the same as in example 1. This material, when laminated, exposed and processed as in example 1, gives a metallic silver image.
  • An overlay proofing material for metallic appearing images may be prepared as follows:
  • a carrier sheet of a 51 micrometer film of biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate polyester was first coated with an aqueous solution constituted as follows:
  • This layer was 0.074 grams/meter 2 .
  • This layer was in turn supracoated with a pigmented dispersion of the following composition:
  • the dried coating weight of this layer was 0.35 grams/meter 2 .
  • a third layer is added which contains the metallic pigment.
  • a metallic image was prepared according to U.S. Pat. No. 3,136,637 by contact exposure to a mask followed by development in n-propanol-water in a 1:1 volume ratio. This image may be overlayed either over a composite multicolor image such as a surprint proof or over an overlay proof as described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,136,637.
  • a carrier sheet of a 51 micrometer film of biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate polyester was first coated with an aqueous solution constituted as follows:
  • This layer was 0.074 grams/meter 2 .
  • This layer was in turn supracoated with a barrier layer of the following composition:
  • the dried coating weight of this layer was 2.0 grams/meter 2 .
  • the final layer of adhesive was supracoated over the above barrier layer having the following composition:
  • this layered composition is laminated with the adhesive layer adjacent to the final support, a four color proof as described in Cederberg and Musser U.S. Pat. No. 4,656,114.
  • the resultant material is placed under an appropriate mask and exposed and processed as described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,656,114.
  • the resulting image has an unacceptable high background as the entire metallic layer was not removed during processing and in the exposed areas, the underlying images were visible.
  • This material containing one thick layer of metallic pigment did not produce acceptable images.
  • the article construction had the following layers in the indicated order:
  • a Cyan pigment dispersion was prepared as follows:
  • An overlay positive proofing material for metallic appearing images may be prepared as follows: A support sheet of polyester was coated with the following layers given in example 5 in the order given: Flat Color Layer, Metallic Color Layer. The resulting material may be exposed in contact with a positive separation film and then processed to give an overlay metallic image. This image then can either be placed in register with a multicolor overlay proof or can be placed over a surprint proof or can be placed over any image to provide a proof of the effect of printing this metallic image via lithography for example.
  • bonds formed between the adhesive layer and the photosensitive layer , if any, and the color layer and the metallic layer (or any intermixing occurring at the interfaces) must not be such as to prevent the flat color-coat or the metallic color-coat from being removed in the appropriate areas during development. It has been found that the desired relation is present where at least a degree of physical incompatibility exists between the resins comprising the flat color layer and barrier layers.

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